Dr. Stephen Wangen, co-founder and Medical Director of the IBS Treatment Center, and his staff have successfully helped over 10,000 people resolve irritable bowel syndrome and chronic digestive problems since 2005.
Some patients have had IBS symptoms so severe that they spent a considerable amount of time in the hospital. Others are suffering alone at home and are no less frustrated with the impact that it is having on their lives. The thread that tied them all together was that they had never seen an IBS expert (much different than a gastroenterologist), a doctor whose only mission is to help people solve IBS.
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I am suffer in ibs from last five years i have cut off from dairy products all veggies lentils and some fruits because it trager symptoms i can only eat meat but now inspite of to much avoidance i still start experiencing symptoms am also suffer in chronic constipation i doesn't poop at all when i take lexalatives it provides me a bit rellive inspite of taking 3,4 medicines of lexalitives at one time and taking half syrup at one type i get very little amount of poop can you plz tell me what i should do i am so tired of my self i feel too much weakness which doesn't go even taking supplements 😢
Hi Doctor I am 18 years old and I found your video today, it has been really helpful . Just one question do you think I have IBS some of the symptoms that you described in the video were really similar to mine . Some symptoms I have is abdominal pain and it moves sometimes up then left or to the bottom , gas ,chills , nausua , bloated , constipation , sometimes direah or just feel like I have not finished taking everything out , burps but not the normal ones , my stomach makes noise , tired or out of energy , hearburn , don't feel like eating but then all of a sudden sometimes i feel hungry and the symptoms vary from day to day . Some days its bad and others good. I have been like this for about 3 years but it was not like this . At first it was just abdominal pain and constipation and really bad stomach pain . Then it started leaving and my symptoms changed . In those years I have been to the hospital , told my doctor and have had x rays , ultersounds , blood work done and other stuff but doctors have not found anything . I ask again what do you think ?
Very informative. What you're saying about inflammation at the cellular level. But I think you would need a holistic doctor who understands this process.
For me, fatigue only happens sometimes and it's not severe. What bothers me the most is that I usually have loose stools after nearly everything I eat (I'll make a doctor's appointment soon).
Thanks for your video. I do commonly experience a lot of the symptoms almost all of them really. I’ve contacted my doctor multiple times. He always checks my blood. How can I get diagnosed or checked for digestive issues?
Truly unethical. I had a GI Dr. Not exam, didn't do one test. Listened to what I told him..excruciating pain drops me to the floor. 3 years and much pain later turns out it is my gallbladder and gluten intolerance. Why does a Dr. Need an incentive to help a patient! Same with useless rheumatologist! How dare they...turns out I also have lupus. I was pushed to brink of wanting to unalive myself.
I have been suffering from IBS from 5 years nw. i have very limited diet bt taking no medicines bt for inflammation. now the prob is that i cant take food containing iron or any spplement which caused a severe anemia. Idk what to do how can i improve my hemoglobin levels??i m tired of going to gastroentologists nw. They dont seem to cure me. Can anyone or the Doctor in a vdo if ur reading the comment. Kindly give me any lead what should i do?
My problem is. Loose bowels. Not diarrhea it’s self but after a b m I can feel fine be sitting and stand and will have thick water release just like passing gas Awful mess. Takes awhile. To get stopped and cleaned up.
I'm sorry that you are experiencing this. Unfortunately, like most doctors, we can't figure things out over youtube comments. We have to work with you. But the good news is, we can usually help you.
I did a hair test recently to look into diet sensitivities. It appears to point to likely candisa. My symptoms are anxiety, insomnia, dioreah or pale yellow stools that look odd, not digesting food, brain fog, recently headaches, hypnic jerks and more
Candida eats sugar and Nystatin contains sucrose as an ingredient in suspension form, corn starch and compressible sugar in tablet form. The powder form seems to be very low quantity and expensive by comparison to the other two and I can't find the ingredients. I'm curious which form you typically prescribe?
Cutting the FODMAPs helped me a little. However, what worked for me is cutting out anything that's probiotic and adding eggs. I noticed that I had low nutrophil volume in my last blood test, so I temporarily cut out the yogurt and my IBS symptoms greatly improved. I've mostly added all my higher FODMAP foods back into my diet. I still haven't added back pinto or black beans, yet. But, chickpeas seem to be OK. Oatmilk is sometimes a problem, but not enough to really bother me.
Unfortunately, my guess is that won't last. Typically when people cut out probiotics to feel better, the results are temporary. However, yogurt is also dairy, and it's often full of sugar. So there are lots of reasons it could help. There's probably a lot more to the picture to sort out yet.
I think I have IBS one week now. Stabbing cramp pains around the tummy in random places, especially after I eat and before a poo. As soon as poo is done it's a bit better. Then it repeats. Get waves of feeling sickness too. Suffer from piles too. Strange.
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I too was told I had IBS (had erosive gastritis though) and as my symptoms progressed: husband pushed for tests and I found out I got a small intestinal tumor that grew this year. They suspect NET: neuro endocrine cancer. NET mimics IBD and IBS.
I started taking a poop, and after that it went on like i w as having diarrhea till it hurts like theres wrapped around my lower belly and and whenver i get an air out i feel relief, but then i notice i havent really been feeling the sense of pee, like i dont feel like peeing so i just got and pee the exact amount of liquid that i took, the pain on my lower belly has surpassed a little but im more worried as to why i dont feel the need to pee, 🥺 im also overthinking if it have to do about me lifting some heavy jugs of water
Hey doc quick question I have tremendous health anxiety and I’m 23 year old male , I’m convinced I have stomach cancer and I’m terrified ever since 2022 if I ate a lot of cheese I would have the worst stomach and heart indigestion and almsot instant dihrea after consumption fast foward to this year 2024 about July 7th . I woke up with abdominal pain it felt like a kidney infection or bladder infection I think nothing of it and wait a few days and the very next day awful bloating that wouldn’t go away for almost 1 week plus , I could barely eat , my stool movements felt less healthy looking idk if that’s due to the health anxiety and me convinced I have cancer or what I went to the er got blood work in full , urine analysis , and a regular ct scan without contrast dye everything came back normal so I was confused and scared .. about 2 weeks after July 7th it seemed to have went away then all of a sudden it came back as side pain and lower back pain very bad heartburn for 3-4 days tums wouldn’t even help nor did gas x with the bloating also then the pain would go into my testicles . That was the only pain that lasted until last Saturday I made a homemade 5 cheese Mac & cheese and after eating just a tad bit of it my stomach grew in agony rumbling and I had bad poops and I had pure yellow diarrhea. It’s now Wednesday and Ever since Sunday the day after Mac and cheese I’m once again bloated every day all day no stopping , growling pains in my stomach when I wake up in the morning , and cramping
It's probably IBS. Which doesn't do you much good, because it's just a label, not the kind of answer that will help you solve it. But I'm confident that there is an answer. And we specialize in helping people solve exactly this kind of problem.
At this point in time, I tend to believe more in what my body tells me. I spend plenty of time in Europe, especially in Greece and I get glutened there just as much as in the US! I do feel as bad being glutened there and I tend to be glutened in Greece more because it seems to be not as well known to be a problem there. I get my utensils in the breadbasket because that’s where they put them. Flour in omelets. I’ve even had bread arrive on watermelon. And yes I do tell them no bread, no flour, no wheat, severe allergy in English and Greek.
